[Hudlug] html to rtf

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 8:58 pm, Tim Bray wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest an app that could open an html file and save it as
> > .rtf? The links need to be visible as an index, but not as an active
> > link, so I don't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to.  So far,
> > though I haven't had any success.  If I could do that I could import =
it
> > into PagePlus (under win4lin) and export it as a pdf.
>
> html to rtf is quite a crazy thing to do.
>
> If you just want to do html to pdf, then I would say the easiest way wo=
uld
> be to use html2ps and then ps2pdf
>
> Although, one good way to do structured documents with an index is to u=
se
> latex.  Then you can use latex2html to put it on the web, and get nicel=
y
> formatted postscript documents out for printing.
>
> You may be able to use gnuhtml2latex to get started.
>
> You can do similar with Docbook I think, but I'm not sure how that work=
s.
>
>
> I'm not a latex expert, but it is something I've always been meaning to
> learn.  I use Lyx a lot though, which is an almost wysiwyg front end to
> latex.  It is good because you can knock out really nice formatted
> documents much faster then with word.  You just type, tell it which bit=
 is
> a heading and it does it all for you.
>
Hmmm... These are all things that I've been meaning to get around to.  Ma=
ybe=20
over the next week or so I'll manage it.  Thanks

Anne
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